More little red seeds.

[mrissa]

Last night we had a pomegranate in honor of my story sale. Usually we don't observe short story sales around here, but usually the titles don't suggest a fairly easy observance, so there you have that. I may try a recipe for pomegranate walnut salmon with the remainder of the seeds, if no one snarfs them first.

I also think I should write a story called "Multi-Course Sushi Dinner With Ice Cream To Follow," that sort of thing. "Buying Lots of Books and Then Taking a Cheerful Walk." "Startling Improvement In Health and a Trip to Patagonia." No, that's not right, because it wasn't just "Pomegranates," so it'd have to be something like, "The Star Sword's Dream Dragon and the Multi-Course Sushi Dinner With Ice Cream To Follow," just to make it a complete genre title.

Also this is because timprov is one of the local experts at spoiling the mrissa, and he was grocery shopping with me and spotted the pomegranates. All by myself I wouldn't have thought of it.

I feel multiple kinds of shitty today, and have done for the last few days. But I'm still here and upright and able to get some things done, so on I go.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I may try a recipe for pomegranate walnut salmon with the remainder of the seeds, if no one snarfs them first.

::snarf::

Here's to fewer kinds of shitty and more kinds of awesome, hopefully in the foreseeable future.

(I don't actually say that every post because I fear it'll grow repetitive and dull and/or irritating [and I do hope you'll stop me, if it does!]. But it's in the subtext, even when not explicit.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am not at all irritated. I think it's sweet of you.

Even if you are trying to snarf my pomegranate seeds long-distance.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Yay for story sales and pomegranate seeds. Boo to feeling shitty.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

"The Flying Squirrel Divas of DoooOOOoom, and a Multi-Course Sushi Dinner With Ice Cream To Follow"!

Ahem. Have a good day.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

"Buying Lots of Books and Then Taking a Cheerful Walk" sounds like the title of something F&SF might publish. (Or at any rate, like something they might have published when I was reading it regularly in the late 80s/early 90s.) It probably would have had a twist ending and/or involve benevolent aliens.

At the risks of sounding like a total philistine: How does one eat a pomegranate? What do they taste like? Are there parts of it you can't eat?

Sorry to hear you're still not feeling well. Hope you feel better soon.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You're not a philistine at all. I think most Americans don't have a lot of experience with pomegranates.

They're a total pain unless you find repetitious motion soothing (some people do). You cut or pull them open and start picking out the little red seeds. You do not want to eat the white interstitial bits: those are bitter and rind-y. You pick the red seeds off the rind, and there's a crunchy bit in the middle of each, and they're sweet and a little tart. Sometimes submerging them in water helps get the seeds off the rind, but not always.

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

Eating pomengranates is like eating crab, too much work if you're really hungry, but worth it if you're just a little hungry :)

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

I always sucked the fruit pulp off the hard kernal. I'll have to try crunching them down whole. You've given me an official Craving, now.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Pomegranates good (my favorite fruit, actually).

Feeling shitty? Bad.

Many sympathies from the House of Plague.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will be calling you tonight.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I like the title of the proposed story (Sushi.. icecream.) Were it not rain turning to snow muck here, I'd like the idea of it too.

They have the most amazing and huge pomegranates in the grocery store all in waterfall display. I almost bought soem to look at. I've never had one, so I have no idea what to do with them.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

For your first pomegranate experience,

1. Wear nothing you cannot get bright garnet-colored stains on. (Or wear nothing. That's always an option.)

2. Spread something which is the functional equivalent of a drop cloth over the area where you intend to set to work.

3. Dig in.

Explore thoroughly; there are seads hidden where you would think no seeds could fit. You can't eat the fibrous white stuff between the seeds. You can eat the pale/clear seeds, they just tend to have slightly less flavor than the bright red ones. You can choose to swallow the seeds or spit them out. You probably shouldn't eat any seed that's brownish and pulpy.

Enjoy. They're fabulous.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Sorry, used 'seed' to mean two diffrent things. The seeds are bright pouches of tart/sweet juice surrounding a small fibrous heart. That center bit is what I meant could be consumed or spit out.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Tis OK. This one was so fun to read it is an appetizer in itself. Thank you!

(And I am smiling thinking about the pomegranate seeds. I was reading sites on Enheduanna just now too.)

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I'm very fond of pomegranates, symbolically and actually. And I think you're onto something with your titles. After all, if it sounds good to you, it'll sound good to readers. I'd probably buy the story with my head saying, "Star sword? Dream dragon? Are you out of your mind?" while my belly ran my fingertips saying, "Mmmmm. Suuuuuushi."

"Anoktis Chiin Buys Books."
"Twenty Decarevs to Improved Health and Better Quirdling."
"When Strangers Cleaned The Carousel (And Didn't Tell the Owner)."
"A Long Walk on a Small Planet: Fresh air, beautiful sunsets, and strange cessations of gravity."
"The Appalling Account of the Woman With Too Many Brownies."

Congratulations on the sale, by the way. I should have said, earlier. And as for your state of health/being - is this an "Augh! I can't believe it's gone on this long! Feel better soon!" kind of thing, or an "Augh, that sucks, I hope things get steadily better," kind of thng? (Feel free to not answer. I shall assume you were busy or distracted. Some people don't like questions in their journals, but I never know unless I, you know, ask.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You don't have to say congratulations at any given point. It's really fine. I appreciate but do not require them.

And there is a strong component of "can't believe it's gone on this long" with a "that [newly] sucks" chaser today. Wheee.

[marksiegal.livejournal.com]

I'd love to read a story called "Multi-Course Sushi Dinner With Ice Cream To Follow." And would gladly celebrate its sale, whoever wrote it, by eating lots of sushi.